A robot-full of love.

One of the hundred reasons of why I'm not updating this blog is the guilt that strikes me every time I touch the papers. Or the scissors.

"My main priority now is to complete my thesis, not to start crafting again."

That's a chant I kept on repeating inside my head. The chant that torments my heart for the past few months.

Oh well, I still do crafts, I still hold scissors, and I still buy papers. But the guilt feeling is still there, thus holding me up. Haha. Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.


A glitter pink heart made to flatter everyone. Thus this entry is made to tell everyone (who would listen) that my heart is still here. And this blog will still be up, to stay. I may not be able to update as regularly as possible, and oh, to the emailers, I'm really, truly sorry for not being able to keep up with you guys. I will try my very best to reply your emails as soon as I can find time.

I know. It's the worst excuse I can come up with. *Shy*


I might wish to be a robot, but I wish that I'm a robot that comes with a glitter pink heart. So I could tell everyone how much I love you guys for being here, and how much I appreciate your concerns. And thank you for the wonderful emails, and requests. And I'm truly sorry for not being able to attend to some of requests. I'll try making up with you guys later k!


So here I am, still as guilty as ever, to myself, to my thesis.. but especially to you, my frequent readers who keep on clicking this blog.

So I made this card, with a delicate hand, and a robot-full of love, to tell everyone that the heart still glitters. :)

Wedding gift (hantaran)

I made this sometime last week, in between the craziness of assignments and classes, and quite satisfied with the overall outcome. Ok, not really related to papers, but thought I should share this for all the altered art lovers. Maybe I should start taking orders for hantaran as well hehe. Enjoy!

This is how the hantaran look like



Still testing on the deco part


The final outcome


A model pose for the final result of the hantaran (Lisa as model haha)

Chocolate for Sweet Lady

I've submitted the first draft of the 3 chapters for my thesis. They're now in safe hands of my supervisor and yet to be checked. To celebrate, I'll be meeting Tita today and plan to go and watch movie + makan2 + jalan2 @ The Curve hehe. Will stop by Papier for a crafty dose.

Since she's been all ears to my problems for the past months (erm..years to be exact hehe), I made these for her.



The butterflies were the extras from the butterfly swap, and the pattern paper was bought from Art Friend, The Garden few months back.


Just to say thank you.


For the ears. And for the friendship. (And for belated birthday too ha ha). Hope you'll like them dear.

Magnets, anyone?

Let's create something different today. If you are an avid reader of Anjung Seri, you'd probably recognize the Anjung Seri magnetic note where you can write important phone numbers or note etc and stick it on your fridge or on your magnetic board. We got lots of those when we bought Anjung Seri during the annual PWTC bookfair. Trust me, they'll still give it as freebie on this year's bookfair. They have too many of those. And the torn chicken recipe, was a freebie from a can/box that I couldn't remember.

The thing is, both of them had been on our fridge's door for few years now, and nobody seems to use them anyway. As much as we love fridge magnets, and collect them from places we've visited, I'm afraid these two didn't fit in well with the theme.

So I took them with me, and tore the sticker cover of that 'magnetic mat' (not sure what it's called hehe). And I paired them up with a few stickers that I bought at Amcorp Sunday Market few months back.


This is the easiest way to do your own fridge magnets of your own design. First you stick your favourite sticker on the magnetic mat like this:


They're not really my favourites, but I'm using them anyway hehe. Since the magnetic mat is so soft you can actually cut them according to the shapes you like. So I use my scissors and cut the shapes accordingly.


Until I got the desired shapes. Take your time cutting the magnetic mat because it can be a bit tricky at times, especially when you use small stickers. And here's the result:


Cute, aren't they? And here's what it looks like from the back.


Now it's ready to be decorated on your fridge, or better still, on your magnetic board in your study/craft room.


I don't have a magnetic board so I use the fridge for display purposes. :P


You can do this in less than 5 minutes, provided you have all the tools needed for the project. For now, I'm on experiment with the rest of the magnetic mat, trying to transform other everyday items into fridge magnets. Hehe. But that would have to wait.

Have fun experimenting too. :)

Sneak Peak: Calendar Swap

Hi everyone. Thousand apologies for not being able to update lately. With the thesis coming, I hardly had time for myself.

By the way, manage to finish doing the calendars for Lovescrap Calendar Swap '09. I've been delaying these for ages- my fault. But thankfully they're now on their way to Ida, the Calendar host. Hopefully they will arrive safely and soundly. :) So here's the sneak peak!




And the paper butterfiles (also from Lovescrap swap 08) had safely reached me few days back. Will post the butterflies later - once I found the right time.

Tutorial - Paper Cake

I've finished all my classes by have been busy with RA work as well as my thesis proposal. Try to find time for crafting, and hopefully by the time I've submitter my proposal, I'll have time to do craft again. :)

Well, as promised, here's a tutorial on the "cake" as posted in the previous entry.

What you'll need:
2 manila cards (or any other better quality paper of the same size)
Double-sided tape
Scissors (or knife)
Box template

Cake Decorati0n:
Quilled roses (or any other type of flowers that that you prefer)


The box template can be found HERE - and this template is just perfect in size for 12 pieces of "cake". I've found a few other templates, but this is the best, and easiest one so far. What I did was, I printed out the template and traced the template on a cardboard. The cardboard template comes in handy what you want to design 12 templates for all the 12 pieces, and you can just recycle the cardboard template for your next cakes as well.

Once you have traced and cut the template, fold them so it will be like this:



And then you can decorate them all you want. As for me, I used things I love most - quilled roses hehe since my then theme was a "wedding cake". I've put the tutorial on how to make quilled roses before so that would come in handy.

First I rolled loose quilled peds and glued them on each of the cake piece:




Then I made the roses together with the swirls as glued them on around the cake - one rose on one piece of cake.


The centrepiece was the hardest one and you would require lots and lots of patience (if you don't have a steady hand like me heh!). First I cut out a scallop, then I started to paste the flowers as a bouquet. Make sure the glue for each flower dried first before continuing to glue others. Or else you could be VERY upset and stressed when the flowers did not turn out the way you want them to be.


I didn't paste the centrepiece in the midle of the cake, but just put them there. Don't glue the centrepiece, or else it would be difficult to distribute the cakes to your guests/ friends/yourself hehe.

And this would be your final result:


I actually found the idea at Mainly Flowers blog by Joanne - a truy WONDERFUL blog on many WONDERFUL ideas on paper flowers. She just posted a new flower-making tutorial, and I love that to pieces!

Try to make your own personalised cake, and don't forget to brag all about it yeah!

p/s thanks Sara for some of the pics.